Tag: Ethics
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Fallen
Another reprised poem from the past year of this blog Fallen a minute till midnight in a court of ruined wingswhere no kindness goes unpunished and hell is empty as the crow fliesanother man’s moccasins the dark horse junkyard dogs death without company and a serpent’s tooth illustratethe fix the fallen the last miledry bonesredemptionthe…
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Cotton Eye Joe
The Sweeplings LyricsCotton Eye Joe Where did he go? If it hadn’t been for Cotton-Eye JoeI’d been married long time agoWhere did you come from? Where did you go?Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? He came in to town like a raging stormHe rode through the fields so handsome and strongHis eyes was his…
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Solar Water Reclamation
Another reprised poem from the past year of this blog. Solar Water Reclamation Sparklingreclaimed waterslowly flows northin the edge ofthe otherwise dry lowerSanta Cruzthen to theGila and eventuallythe Colorado sun glares offacres ofsolar arraypoweringthe reclaimingengines disgorging thereclaimedreconstitutedamniotic fluidof life as predatorand preyobserve fromshadow-gorgedhidey-holes andshade-camouflagedcreviced walls and I stare at the arraywonderinghow it got this way dry riverbedspoisoned blue…
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Our Modern World
Another reprised poem from the past year of this blog Our Modern World Oneconcentration of wealth, power, and freedoms in the hands of privileged classes,fear mongering, the old ploy,makes for easy control, brow-beat the masses. Twoconform and obey, your patriotic duty, ignore any protests, though justified, condemn civil disobedience – all, science, an enemy, facts…
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Fireflies and the Frost Ninja
Another reprised poem from the past year of this blog. Fireflies and the Frost Ninja firefliesthe magnificent ninea court of frostand starlightof troubled bloodland of wolves the ninja’s bladethe finishersilent wife orkept womanspirit of steamboator any other name don’t dare a dameseamus in a skirta ninja’s daughtergathering of ravensmercy – from evildeliver us court mist…
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Metaphysical Glimpses
Another reprised poem from the past year of this blog Metaphysical Glimpses life and deathwhite and blackyin and yangwaves and troughslight and darkinside and outsidethe universe and I two sides of the same coinpoles in the same eventa game with no winnerif one side winsexistence ends endings and beginningsall exists simultaneouslyeach implies otherlife and death…
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How Fortunate The Man With None
How Fortunate the Man With Noneby Dead Can Dance You saw sagacious SolomonYou know what came of him,To him complexities seemed plain.He cursed the hour that gave birth to himAnd saw that everything was vain.How great and wise was Solomon.The world however didn’t waitBut soon observed what followed on.It’s wisdom that had brought him to…
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Iaido Meditation
Another reprised poem from the past year of this blog Iaido Meditation eyebrows growing outdroop past nose and chinshakuhachi notesswirling in the wind bird song behindwater droplets fallingreflecting-pool rippleswhile koi blow bubbles single cut with myquick iaido bladesevers blossomand stem silk scarf pared in two as it slides down the razor edge of mykatana’s molten…
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Art and War Drive Technology
Another reprised poem from the past year of this blog Art and War Drive Technology Art and war notthe Art of Warby Sun Tzunecessarilybut maybeare the driversof technology inevery age war in its searchfor efficient and devastating killing and subjugatingtech against any who oppose the ‘righteous’ established ‘natural’ contrived order art seeking efficient techcopy and…
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Irony of Ironies
Another reprised poem from the past year of this blog Irony of Ironies Sometimes it’s all too tiringfacts and opinionsbeliefs and conditioningpropaganda commercialsinternal dilemmacognitive dissonance Sometimes it’s all toopedantic toosemantic toocerebral or tooemotional to appreciatethe irony of it all Survival depends oncooperation of the wholebrains and heartsindividual and communityhumanity and our ecology lest humankind ends…
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